Special Issue on Spiritual Transformation and Healing

Joan Koss-Chioino, Guest Editor

“Although readers may have seen advertisements for books or brief announcements about the Spiritual Transformation Project developed by Dr. Sol Katz, this issue of the Global Spiral intends a fuller acquaintance.” more

“We believed that the questions we asked would help build a constructive approach to religion and science, in contrast to the negative approaches that were exhibited in the media and even in the literature.” more

“Through much of the 20th century it was assumed that dramatic spiritual experiences...are pathological. They have been attributed to various psychoses, especially schizophrenia, and to epilepsy, migraine, and toxic states.” more

“Although the current debate on science and spirituality has discussed several important topics, it usually does not touch the scientific investigation of certain claims about the spirit (its existence, survival after bodily death, reincarnation, etc.). However, this was not always the case.” more

“Whether it is thought of as many or one, personal or non-personal, the sacred is first, the source of all existence, and second, that in relation to which our lives become meaningful. It is understood as something more than ourselves in which we 'live and move and have our being'.” more

“The soul exists in reality, a sensitive living entity. When the breakthrough occurs, the heart fires up, the lungs suddenly spread wide with a kind of recognition—with a gasp, like the lungs of a newborn baby. The very pores quiver in goose bumps.” more